Dylann Roof鈥檚 plan was simple.聽The 21-year-old wanted to start a race war, following the same demented path as infamous white supremacists before him.
Dylann Roof鈥檚 plan was simple.聽The 21-year-old wanted to start a race war, following the same demented path as infamous white supremacists before him.
Reporting on organized white supremacy comes with a myriad of challenges. We confront those challenges on Hatewatch daily with varying degrees of frustration and success. And we have watched with sympathy 鈥撯 and, yes, at times frustration 鈥撯 as reporters and editors have grappled with white supremacy rebranded as the 鈥淎lt-Right.鈥澛
Dylann Storm Roof, indoctrinated in online hate and racism, was convicted today聽in Charleston, S.C., of a murderous gun rampage in 2015 that left nine people dead at a historic African-American church.聽The racially motivated killing spree jarred the nation.
Riding the wave of attention following the annual conference of the white nationalist聽National Policy Institute (NPI), and the spike of media attention towards the white supremacist subculture termed the 鈥榓lt-right鈥, its founder,聽Richard Spencer, appeared last night at Texas A&M to further spread his racist ideology.聽
Overnight, the radical right celebrated the election of Donald Trump聽whose campaign brought attention to their issues not seen in decades. Some聽even claimed聽that a white revolution had begun.聽
The white nationalist H.L. Mencken Club gathers tonight for its ninth annual conference.
Longtime white supremacist Ronald 鈥淒ozer鈥 Pulcher II, of Galeton, Penn., was聽聽October 29 and charged with multiple felonies after a search of a home he resides in revealed marijuana plants and firearms.聽
Derek Black, whose father founded the hate forum Stormfront, changed his name, publicly rejected white nationalism and cashed in a bequest from a wealthy racist鈥攁ll during one long weekend in July 2013.
Despite a long background in far-right radicalism, youthful Taylor Rose鈥檚 campaign enjoys deep and broad support within the state鈥檚 GOP.
Racist troll-turned-movement attorney Kyle Bristow finds a second wind and a new audience for his activism.聽